manner; that

for

after this the Indians aptheir

banditti, causelessly

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vm, 471.

mur-

OF HUDSON'S RIPER.

Senecas and Mingoes z led by Logan, threw themselves with fire and tomahawk upon the Virginia border.

The war was nominally concluded in October.

Immediately

outbreak Dunmore organized a force of three thousand men and marched to the Ohio country. One of the divisions

on

its

of this force, under Colonel Lewis, reached the mouth of the

Great Kanhawa on the

sixth,

and was there attacked, on the

tenth, by one thousand warriors of the western confederacy, under Cornstalk, who had determined to anticipate his junction

with the main army under Dunmore. rate one, and neither party could

Virginians lost their their

commissioned

The battle was a despe The

claim the victory. fairly

commander, Colonel Lewis, one- half of and fifty-two privates killed, while

officers

the Indians lost, in killed and wounded, two hundred and thirty-

In the night the Indians retreated. Meanwhile Dunmore had pushed on to the Sciota, with the division under his command, and was there met by a flag of truce from the In

three.

dians proposing to treat for peace. Negotiations were opened, and a treaty concluded. 2 But the war did not stop. Boone and Bullit, and other pioneers, provoked fresh hostilities and entailed

upon the colonists the animosities which had been engendered in all the long struggle for the possession of the

Ohio valley.

The French traders and priests who remained in the Indian country, moreover, contributed in no small degree to keep alive the hostile feeling which they had inculcated from the first hour